More to explore on 'The Effectiveness Mindset'

Other introductions

• Introduction to EA | Ajeya Cotra | EAGxBerkeley 2016 (Video - 30 mins.)
• Doing Good Better - Introduction through to the end of Chapter 3 (50 mins.)
• Effective Altruism: An Introduction - 80,000 Hours - Ten curated episodes from The 80,000 Hours Podcast. (Ten 1.5 hour - 4 hour podcasts)
• Effective altruism as I see it (7 mins.)
• No matter your job, here’s 3 evidence-based ways anyone can have a real impact - 80,000 Hours (20 mins.)
• Other-centered ethics and Harsanyi's Aggregation Theorem (107 min)

Essays on caring

• The value of a life - Minding Our Own Way - Disentangling the difference between the value of a life and what it costs to save a life in our broken world. (15 mins.)
• Excited altruism - GiveWell - Where does our own passion and excitement fit in? (10 mins.)

Tradeoffs

• Tradeoffs - How can we balance our own needs with the needs of others? (5 mins.)
• Famine, affluence, and morality (15 mins.) Note that many people in effective altruism disagree about exactly how demanding these ideas are.
• Sustainable motivation - How can we stay motivated when facing massive problems? (talk, 24 mins.)

Thinking carefully

• Minimal trust investigations  (18 mins.)
• Double crux: a strategy for mutual understanding (17 mins.)
• Outline of Julia Galef’s “Scout Mindset” (20 mins.)
• Humans are not automatically strategic (5 mins.)
• Beware surprising and suspicious convergence (22 mins.)
• Crucial Considerations and Wise Philanthropy (25 mins) - talk by Nick Bostrom on the almost overwhelming difficulty of knowing what kind of impacts actions have.